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Courgettes

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  Posted by flower-bud (U14397996) on Friday, 2nd July 2010

  Hi everyone
  
  I'm growing 2 courgette plants outside as well as 2 in the greenhouse. Do the ones grown in the greenhouse need pollinating. Does anyone know?

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  Posted by welshcol (U2301689) on Friday, 2nd July 2010

  There will probably be sufficient insects flying about even indoors without you needing to do anything extra and I do believe some of the newer varieties are self pollinated anyway. Don't forget to remove the male flowers to save plant energy once you can tell the difference.

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  Posted by flower-bud (U14397996) on Saturday, 10th July 2010

  Thanks for the info. I think I can see one small courgette forming on one of the plants in the greenhouse. Do you think feeding liquid seeweed is a good idea?

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  Posted by collperson (U13806187) on Saturday, 10th July 2010

  Sorry, but what I am going to say is not really relevant about feeding courgettes in a greenhouse. But this year I grew a courgette in the greenhouse and put three outside. The three outsiders are doing really well, producing loads of courgettes, but the inside one wilted and failed and looked really miserable. Don't know why, but I wouldn't put them inside again. Perhaps I didn't water the insider enough or it was too hot.

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  Posted by Paul Hodder (U14288973) on Saturday, 10th July 2010

  Hello, the two plants I'm growing in the greenhouse look like being flops. There are a couple of fruits on them but they just do not seem to be growing as they should. One fruit seems dark and bulbous at one end and light green at the other and pretty small. I don't have much faith and don't know whats gone wrong.

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  Posted by collperson (U13806187) on Sunday, 11th July 2010

  My experience exactly, Paul Hodder. Initially the insider looked excellent but as time went on the outsiders grew just as well and produced more courgettes. I imagine it is the heat that cripples it. I won't try inside again.
  
  

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  Posted by dirtyrob (U14395261) on Sunday, 11th July 2010

  If you have the room grow your courgettes outside. They are one of the easiest veg to grow, and i virtually give no care to them what so ever. I grow them at the end of my row of sweetcorn, i prepare the soil by digging a shallow trench and adding proper compost (no soil, just veg peeling etc.) You do not need to feed them at all through out the summer as you've already prepared your soil last October. All you need to do is make sure it has water, and self pollinate just to be sure Mine are cropping superbly again, and only 2 plants will get you more courgettes than you probably need

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  Posted by Lindafifer (U6691320) on Friday, 16th July 2010

  Hi, I have been tbvery interested to read about your courgette. I have 3 plants and the flowers are producing well, but they keep dropping off before they open. The plant is nice and healthy and I can't figure out what is happening.
  
  I am in [Personal details removed by Moderator] in Scotland, just on the north side of the river to Edinburgh and we have had some colder days - 15 degrees day, maybe 9 degrees at night. Could it be too cold for them?
  
  Thanks in anticipation
  Linda

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  Posted by collperson (U13806187) on Saturday, 17th July 2010

  I doubt it, Linda. I live in the Hebrides, where wind keeps the temperature down. Courgettes do very well here except in continual damp weather when they tend to rot.

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  Posted by Lindafifer (U6691320) on Saturday, 24th July 2010

  Sorry for delay in replying, work commitments are keeping me from garden and computer
  
  Thanks for that information collperson, so if yu can grow them so can I!!! I now have a couple of courgettes showing, but some flowers still drop off so assume its just one of those things.
  
  Thanks
  Linda
  
  

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  Posted by metalcatscan (U13893366) on Saturday, 24th July 2010

  Hi Linda, just to further confirm the other comments about courgettes,I live just outside Edinburgh and have succesfully grown them for years, so persevere and I'm sure that you'll eventually get a good crop

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